Ivana Brkljačić
Ivana Brkljačić in Zagreb, 2009
Ivana Brkljačić (born 25 January 1983 in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany) is a former female hammer thrower from Croatia.
She achieved good results as a teenager, winning the World Junior Championships twice and finishing 11th in the 2000 Olympic finals at the age of 17. In the hammer throw contest at the 2004 Olympics she missed qualification to the final round by 6 centimetres.
Her personal best throw, and also a national record, is 75.08 metres, set at the June 2007 EAA meeting in Warsaw.
In 2009 Brkljačić became a director of the Hanžeković Memorial, a member of the IAAF World Challenge series of athletics meetings.
On 27 May 2010 Brkljačić announced her retirement from professional sport. Her last competition appearance was at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
Achievements
| Year |
Competition |
Venue |
Position |
Notes |
Representing  Croatia |
| 1998 |
World Junior Championships |
Annecy, France |
15th (q) |
53.81 m |
| European Championships |
Budapest, Hungary |
— |
NM |
| 1999 |
World Youth Championships |
Bydgoszcz, Poland |
3rd |
55.69 m |
| European Junior Championships |
Riga, Latvia |
5th |
58.08 m |
| 2000 |
Olympic Games |
Sydney, Australia |
11th |
63.20 m |
| World Junior Championships |
Santiago, Chile |
1st |
62.22 m |
| 2001 |
European Junior Championships |
Grosseto, Italy |
1st |
64.18 m |
| World Championships |
Edmonton, Canada |
8th |
65.43 m |
| Mediterranean Games |
Radès, Tunisia |
4th |
61.44 m |
| 2002 |
World Junior Championships |
Kingston, Jamaica |
1st |
65.39 m |
| European Championships |
Munich, Germany |
17th (q) |
62.46 m |
| 2003 |
European U23 Championships |
Bydgoszcz, Poland |
8th |
63.04 m |
| World Championships |
Paris, France |
35th (q) |
60.06 m |
| 2004 |
Olympic Games |
Athens, Greece |
13th (q) |
68.21 m |
| 2005 |
Mediterranean Games |
Almería, Spain |
7th |
64.88 m |
| World Championships |
Helsinki, Finland |
15th (q) |
65.63 m |
| 2006 |
European Championships |
Gothenburg, Sweden |
21st (q) |
63.31 m |
| World Athletics Final |
Stuttgart, Germany |
4th |
66.90 m |
| 2007 |
World Championships |
Osaka, Japan |
11th |
68.16 m |
| World Athletics Final |
Stuttgart, Germany |
2nd |
73.22 m |
| 2008 |
Olympic Games |
Beijing, PR China |
16th (q) |
68.38 m |
References